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A judge granted Gwinnett County's request to keep two polling locations open for an additional 58 minutes until 7:58 p.m. ET due to a security threat prompted a temporary evacuation earlier today.
Threats, some of which have also been tied to Russia, have also been reported in Georgia, which extended voting hours at several polling locations in Fulton and Gwinnett County past the 7 p.m ...
A sign sits outside of a voting location, as Georgians turned out a day after the battleground state opened early voting, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., October 16, 2024.
In 2018, Stacey Abrams became the first Democrat to win Gwinnett County in a gubernatorial election since 1986 when Joe Frank Harris swept every county statewide. The Democratic trend became even more apparent in 2020, when Joe Biden won the county by 18.2 points, the best showing for a non-Georgian Democrat since Kennedy's 73.50%.
The 13th district maintains most of the parts of Clayton County (exchanging a small slither for DeKalb County and maintains its portion in Henry County but also includes Rockdale County, Newton County formerly in the 4th district and also extends into southern Gwinnett County. This maintains three majority-black districts that also now reflect ...
From 2013 to 2023, the district included most of Gwinnett County and portions of Forsyth County. [4] Although the seat had been held by Republicans from 1995 until 2021, the 7th district had previously elected Democrats consistently from the Reconstruction era (1868) until the 1994 Congressional Elections. The district has recently become ...
By 5 p.m. ET in Gwinnett County, the county website said the shortest wait at one of the county’s nine polling stations was one hour and 15 minutes. The longest was 4 and a half hours.
The Election Integrity Act of 2021, originally known as the Georgia Senate Bill 202, [1] [2] is a law in the U.S. state of Georgia overhauling elections in the state. It replaced signature matching requirements on absentee ballots with voter identification requirements, limits the use of ballot drop boxes, expands in-person early voting, bars officials from sending out unsolicited absentee ...